"Booker T. Washington Jr., will be there to dedicate the new school building on Sept. 8th, at 2:00 p.m. Prof. Moton will deliver the address. Music will be furnished by the band from Tuskegee. There will be several speeches made by state officials,...

At the time this letter was written, Oates was serving as the state prison inspector. In it Adams reports on conditions in the Chambers County jail. He notes that the eleven prisoners (one white man and eleven African American men) are healthy, but...

In the letter Smith reports that white planters in Chambers County have tried to interfere with the registration of African American voters there: "I heard of no open violations but am satisfied that parties have thrown every obsticle [sic] in the...

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